1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m team (men)

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Olympic rings
1920 olympics poster.jpg
sport athletics
discipline 3000 meter team run
gender Men
Attendees 31 athletes from 6 countries
Competition location Antwerp Olympic Stadium
Competition phase August 21, 1920 (preliminary round)
August 22, 1920 (final)
Medalist
gold medal United States 48United States United States
Silver medal United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland GBR
Bronze medal SwedenSweden SWE

The men's 3,000-meter team run at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 21 and 22, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 31 athletes took part.

The US team won the gold medal ahead of Great Britain and Sweden.

Teams from Germany, Austria and Switzerland did not take part.

Conducting the competition

On August 21st at 3:15 pm local time, two races were held as preliminary rounds. It remains quite a mystery how this type of run came about and what prelims were set up for at all. Four teams competed in the first run, the last of which was eliminated. The second heat was played with two teams, both of which qualified for the final on August 22nd at 4:50 pm.

Each team could compete with a maximum of five runners, the best three of them were rated with points according to their placements (1st place = 1 point, 2nd place = 2 points, etc.). These placements were added up, the order resulted from the lowest sums in each case, so it was purely a place number evaluation, achieved times played no role.

Note: The teams qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue. The runners not considered for the award of points are written in italics.

Preliminary round

Date: August 21, 1920

Run 1

Single results

space Surname nation Points
1 Sven Lundgren SwedenSweden Sweden 1
2 Duncan McPhee United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 2
3 John Zander SwedenSweden Sweden 3
4th Joe Blewitt United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 4th
5 William Seagrove United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 5
6th Ernesto Ambrosini Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 6th
7th Julien Van Campenhout BelgiumBelgium Belgium 7th
8th Eric Backman SwedenSweden Sweden 8th
9 Augusto Maccario Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 9
10 Carlo Speroni Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 10
11 Edvin Wide SwedenSweden Sweden -
12 Percy Hodge United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain -
13 James Hatton United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain -
14th Claude Otterbeen BelgiumBelgium Belgium 11
15th Carlo Martinenghi Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy -
16 Lucien Bangels BelgiumBelgium Belgium 12
17th Josef Holsner SwedenSweden Sweden -
18th François Vyncke BelgiumBelgium Belgium -
19th Pierre Trullemans BelgiumBelgium Belgium -
20th Henri Smets BelgiumBelgium Belgium -

Team ranking

space team Athletes Points annotation
1 United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain Duncan McPhee (2)
Joe Blewitt (4)
William Seagrove (5)
11
2 SwedenSweden Sweden Sven Lundgren (1)
John Zander (3)
Eric Backman (8)
12
3 Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy Ernesto Ambrosini (6)
Augusto Maccario (9)
Carlo Speroni (10)
25th
4th BelgiumBelgium Belgium Julien Van Campenhout (7)
Claude Otterbeen (11)
Lucien Bangels (12)
30th

Run 2

Single results

space Surname nation Points
1 Edmond Brossard Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1
2 Armand Burtin Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 2
3 Horace Brown United States 48United States United States 3
4th Gaston Hay Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 4th
5 Michael Devaney United States 48United States United States 5
6th Ivan Dresser United States 48United States United States 6th
7th Lawrence Shields United States 48United States United States -
8th Arlie Schardt United States 48United States United States -
9 Lucien Duquesne Third French RepublicThird French Republic France -
10 René Vignaud Third French RepublicThird French Republic France -

Team ranking

space team Athletes Points annotation
1 Third French RepublicThird French Republic France Edmond Brossard (1)
Armand Burtin (2)
Gaston Heuet (4)
7th
2 United States 48United States United States Horace Brown (3)
Michael Devaney (5)
Ivan Dresser (6)
14th

final

Single results

Date: August 22, 1920

space Surname nation Points
1 Horace Brown United States 48United States United States 1
2 Eric Backman SwedenSweden Sweden 2
3 Arlie Schardt United States 48United States United States 3
4th Armand Burtin Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 4th
5 Joe Blewitt United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 5
6th Ivan Dresser United States 48United States United States 6th
7th Albert Hill United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 7th
8th Lawrence Shields United States 48United States United States -
9 William Seagrove United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 8th
10 James Hatton United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain -
11 Ernesto Ambrosini Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 9
12 Michael Devaney United States 48United States United States -
13 Sven Lundgren SwedenSweden Sweden 10
14th Gaston Hay Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 11
15th Edvin Wide SwedenSweden Sweden 12
16 Augusto Maccario Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 13
17th Carlo Speroni Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 14th
18th Edmond Brossard Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 15th
19th Carlo Martinenghi Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy -
20th Josef Holsner SwedenSweden Sweden -
21st Lucien Duquesne Third French RepublicThird French Republic France -
DNF Duncan McPhee United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain
René Vignaud Third French RepublicThird French Republic France

Team ranking

space team Athletes Points annotation
1 United States 48United States United States Horace Brown (1)
Arlie Schardt (3)
Ivan Dresser (6)
10
2 United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain Joe Blewitt (5)
Albert Hill (7)
William Seagrove (8)
20th
3 SwedenSweden Sweden Eric Backman (2)
Sven Lundgren (10)
Edvin Wide (12)
24
4th Third French RepublicThird French Republic France Armand Burtin (4)
Gaston Heuet (11)
Edmond Brossard (15)
30th
5 Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy Ernesto Ambrosini (9)
Augusto Maccario (13)
Carlo Speroni (14)
36

For reasons unknown, Finland decided not to take part, although the runners from that country would have had a great chance of winning the gold medal here too. So the US athletes surprisingly won this race.

literature

  • Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 139f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official report, page 108 (French) ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )